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11-09-2022, 09:11 PM
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Re: Belgian Tourist's Skull Lodged Between Rocks in Peru
did she travel alone? how come nobody comes across her body for months? |
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11-10-2022, 02:32 AM
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Re: Belgian Tourist's Skull Lodged Between Rocks in Peru
If that river runs high enough to wash her over the boulder field, most feasible cause is she slipped into the river during high flow and got her head wedged in the crack after her body passed over. Gravity would have been tugging her body straight down, and the force of the flowing water plus broken or wedged limbs would make it impossible to push herself upward out of the wedge. Quite possible the water was doing a waterfall past her head and not enough submersion to drown her. If the head wedge did not knock her unconscious, that would have been a slow and miserable way to go. In whitewater, when you get washed into an obstruction that grabs you, and the current keeps you from escaping, that obstruction is called a strainer. Strainers are usually submerged tree branches and are a common cause of death in fast moving water. |
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11-10-2022, 06:23 AM
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